Where were you 14 years ago today?

[awick14]

Do you remember what you were doing 14 years ago today?

I remember waiting for a neighbour kid to come over so we could walk to school together. (In grade 7 or 8, I can't remember.)

Hen he got to my house he told me what he saw on the news, I thought he was joking and I changed the subject. When we got to school most of the teachers were gathered in classrooms with the news on. That's when I realized it was real. I lived in my little bubble and thought things like that didn't happen in our time, it was a thing of the past. Boy was I wrong.

[HoneySpider]

I'm going to C&P my post from MMM so sorry for the repeat -

I was a junior in college in Pittsburgh, my baseball team (the Mets) was in town to play the Pirates. I was on AOL IM (lol) with a friend making plans for going to the game and he said "you better go turn on the tv." I still remember watching and it not entirely sinking in what was happening. I went to go to class and got on the bus and it was dead silent, everyone was listening to the radio with the news. We actually had class for a little bit before it got cancelled and I remember swarms of people just gathered outside the student union. I'll always remember wearing my Mets jersey that day.

I eventually went home and tried calling my parents (in NJ) but you couldn't get through on any of the phone lines. They were trying to call me too because all of the news reports there were saying that the plane crashed IN Pittsburgh. Our main academic building on campus is very tall so were a plane to crash into something in the city, that would very likely be it. It was the building I had class in that morning.

[awick14]

HoneySpider- that's ok, that's where I stole the idea from. (Or it could have been another board)

[Deleted]

I was in high school in Pittsburgh. I first heard that something had happened in my 11th grade spanish class. When I walked to my next class, the news was on. We were given busy work to do but were allowed to watch the news and not do the work. Some people were sort of not taking it seriously at first because we didn't know what was going on. We all watched the second plane hit and the towers fall live. Parents were picking up their kids sporadically, but when the plane went down in Shanksville, the school pretty much emptied. My dad and sister came to pick up me and my friend in the afternoon.

[bk1]

I was in 8th grade. I was walking in the hall when I heard. My science teacher pulled out a TV on a cart so he could watch the news. I remember going in there and being in disbelief. I never imagined something like that would happen.

[MrsMB]

I was a freshman at college in MS. We were in music theory class. Someone came in during our break and told everyone to go to the teacher's lounge because someone ran a plane into one of the two towers. We watched live as the other plane hit. It was so frightening being away from home and knowing all that terrorism was going on in the country.

[estrellita]

9th grade, walking into Spanish class. Just thought it was a small plane and an accident. Realized after a while that it wasn't. Some of my classes just watched the coverage all day and some tried to keep a normal day. We stayed inside for gym class and watched, and my soccer game that night was canceled. My sister was working at the MOA at the time and got sent home as soon as she got there because that was on the list of possible targets. I was also worried about my cousin who is a flight attendant and was working at a major airline at the time. Luckily not one of the ones involved though.

I remember hearing military planes all night and just being scared. I knew I was probably safe, but you just never know what's going to happen, you know?

[Skyesthelimit1212]

I was at work, at the time I worked in the Behavioral Sleep dept. They came in to tell us and to see if anyone w/nursing training would be willing to stay in case something happened in Boston as well. I remember them also discussing wither or not to tell the people who were the long term sleep study what was happening. People in the study were not allowed outside stimuli, radio, news, etc.

[pooh8402]

Senior year of high school. I was in AP Bio class when we heard the news. Houston's oil and gas industry was rumored to be a target , so I was worried about my family all day.

[Deleted]

I was a senior in high school. We only live an hour from NYC. All of the sudden students were being called to the office. It went on all day long. A lot of students had parents that either worked in the twin towers or near there. After school I went to work at the grocery store I was a cashier at and the manager shut the store down shortly after I got there so we could spend the evening with our families.

[wanderingenough]

Senior in high school. Something had my boyfriend and I running late that morning. We heard about the first plane on the news and stayed at his house. We watched the second plane hit while sitting alone on his couch. My cousin worked in DC at the time, so I never made it to school. Too busy panicking all day.

We both worked at Party City and had a shift that night. We worked a couple hours before the manager realized nobody would be party planning that day and closed up shop.

[estrellita]

I was thinking about it and the airline my cousin worked at could have potentially been involved. I guess someone (a couple people? Can't remember now) was trying to use the flight simulators in my home town and only wanted to learn taking off and flying, not landing. At the time it was just weird but after what happened people realized what was going on. Scary stuff. I'm thankful it was stopped because who knows, maybe something would have happened here too. Just crazy to think of all the planning that went into it. So sad and angering.

[grover]

I was a sophomore. We had a late start that morning for teacher meetings, so I was actually on the bus when it happened. We spent the day listening to the radio and watching the tvs.


My current class has a few kids that were already born, but the majority of my students were born after. It's weird, having the discussion with kids who weren't alive when it happened.